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By ERIN MILLER
By ERIN MILLER
Stephens Media Hawaii
No one is going to be living there — or even visiting — but astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory have found the first rocky, Earth-sized planet.
The planet, Kepler-78b, isn’t in what scientists call the Goldilocks zone, the proximity from a star — not too close and not too far — that could sustain life.